Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 109

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824

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March 19, 1897. He was a justice of the peace in Rhode Island.

Children of Daniel and Ruth ( Burlingame) Fiske were: Julia Ann, born August 13, 1844, married, November 15, 1865, George R. Hamant, of North Brookfield; Mary Elizabeth, born January 19, 1846, married, November 16, 1865, Moses Hobbs, of North Brookfield, Massachusetts; Susan Maria, resides in Worcester; Stephen Burlingame, born October 30. 1849, married Alice N. Stebbins; Celia Jane, born April 7, 1854, resided lately at 56 Coral street, Wor- cester : Charles Daniel, born March 13, 1856, married Melinda Brooks ; Sarah Frances, born December 15. 1858, married, June 1, 1887, John Charles Hawkins, Of Fiskville, Rhode Island.

(XV) Stephen Burlingame Fiske, son of Daniel Fiske (14), was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, October 30, 1849. He married, at North Brookfield, Massachusetts, March 3, 1873, Alice N. Stebbins, born July 23, 1852. Mr. Fiske was educated in the public schools of Brookfield. He assisted his father for some time on the farm before he was twenty. Afterwards he served an apprenticeship of three years in the drug business in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and he was for one year a member of the firm of G. R. Hamant, of North Brookfield, Massa- chusetts. For the next five years he kept a drug store in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire. In 1879 he came to Upton, Massachusetts, and succeeded to the drug business formerly carried on there by James S. Le Sure at the corner of North Main and Mit- ford streets. He had no opposition in his line and he built up a large and successful business. A few years ago he built near the old location a new busi- ness block, where he has a main salesroom thirty by seventy-six feet, with office, prescription depart- ment and laboratory in the rear. About three thous- and square feet of floor space is devoted to the business. Mr. Fiske was not only the town apothe- cary, but he was the advisor and business confident of half the town. He was most accommodating and helpful to those needing advice and assistance, and no man in the vicinity had the confidence and esteem of the community more completely.

Mr. Fiske was a Republican in politics and was intensely interested in public affairs. His business ability as well as his high standing in the community have called him often into the public service. After he had declined the office of town treasurer, when he had been a resident of the town only three years, he was in 1884 induced to accept the position and he held it to the satisfaction of all concerned until his death, except for two years. He was a member of the committee to construct the school house, and was a member of the library committee for several years. He was chief engineer of the fire depart- ment, was a notary public and justice of the peace. As a magistrate he was particularly helpful to the veterans in putting their pension papers in shape. He was an active member of a number of fraternal orders.

He invested largely in Upton real estate and in- dustries and in every way possible helped in the development of his town. Ile built a handsome residence on Nelson hill, known as Maple Terrace. Since the death of Mr. Fiske. his widow has lived with her son in the building over the drug store in the village square. Mr. Fiske died April 1, 1904, after a long illness.

He married, March 3, 1873, Alice N. Stebbins, of a prominent North Brookfield family. Their chil- dren were: Charles Norman, born at East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, April 22, 1876: Harry Austin, born at Upton. June 12, 18So, died there April 10, 1897; Walter Heyward, born January 3. 1882.

(XVI) Dr. Charles Norman Fiske, son of Stephen Burlingame Fiske (15), was born in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, April 22, 1876. He re- ceived his early school training in the Upton schools, graduating from the high school 1892. He then studied a year at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, grad- nating 1893, and entered Harvard College. He de- cided to try for the office of surgeon in the navy, and accordingly left college to enter the Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1900. He entered the navy and is now (1905) a past assistant surgeon, attached to the Marblehead, now undergoing alterations and repairs in the Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco. He married, Sep- tember 25, 1902, Helen Tucker Hawke, daughter of Admiral James T. Hawke, who is living since his retirement at Sonoma, California. They have one child, John Norman. born November 15, 1903.

(XVI) Walter Heyward Fiske, son of Stephen Burlingame Fiske (15), was born in Upton, Massa- chusetts, January 3, 1882. He attended the common schools of his native town and graduated from the Upton high school, 1899. He studied at Phillips (Exeter) Academy one year and took a course in Becker's Business College in Worcester. He .came into the store as soon as he left school and assisted his father in the business. The entire management of the business soon devolved on him by reason of his father's ill health. He was virtually the town treas- urer also during the last illness of his father. Since the death of his father. in 1904, Mr. Fiske has held the position of treasurer. He is a member of the Republican town committee. In a way he has taken his father's place in the town as well as in the busi- ness. Those who had learned to trust the father have reposed equal confidence in the son, and he is popular with all his fellow citizens. He is a member of the Milford Lodge, No. 223, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; also Master Mason of Montgomery Lodge, Milford. Massachusetts; Benevolent and Pro- tective Order Elks, Milford Lodge, No. 628; Court Upton. Foresters of America, No. 195.

Ile married. October 22, 1902, Ernestine Saunders, daughter of Milton Saunders, of Milford, Massa- chusetts. They have one child, Helen, born in Up- ton, April 24, 1904.

CALVIN LYON HARTSHORN. No name has been more prominent in the history of the develop- mient of agriculture and horticulture in Worcester county than that of Hartshorn. Three generations of them have pursued the vocation of farming in the city of Worcester with success. They have each kept ahead of their times and have led rather than kept pace. The three representatives of these gen- crations are Calvin Lyon Hartshorn, his father Jonas and his son Arthur E. They are descended from the Ilartshorns of Reading, Dedham, Walpole, Sher- born. Boylston and Worcester.

(I) Thomas Hartshorn, the founder of the family of the name in America, settled in Reading in the Massachusetts Bay colony. His original farm has been occupied continuously by lineal descendants to the present time. He was born in England in 1614. The Hartshorns in England took their name from an ancient parish of this name in Litchfield diocese, Derby county. It is believed that the parish was named from its geographical resemblance to a hart's horn. The family was well established, as the records show, as far back as the thirteenth century. Henry de Hertishorn and others are mentioned as residing in Derby county. They bore arms. The coat of arms contains three buicks' heads and the crest is a buck's head. The design obviously refers to the name's significance. Thomas Hartshorn took

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the freeman's oath at Reading, May 10, 1648. He was a prominent and influential citizen, serving his fellow colonists as selectman and in other positions of trust and honor. He died about May 18, 1683. His wife, Susannah, died March 18, 1659-60. He

married (second ) Hannah -, who was received from the church in Ipswich 6 (2) 1663. She dicd July 20, 1673. He married (third) Sarah, widow of William Lamson, of Ipswich. His children were: Thomas, born October 30, 1646, died young : Thomas, born September 30, 1648; John, born May 6, 1650; Joseph, born July 2, 1652: Benjamin, born 1654; Jonathan, born August 20, 1656; David, born 1657; Susannah, born March 2, 1659; Timothy, born Feb- ruary 3, 1661; Mary, born August 19, 1672.

(II) Joseph Hartshorn, son of Thomas (I), and Susannah Hartshorn, was born July 2, 1652, at Read- ing, Massachusetts, died July 30, 1727, at Walpole. He resided at Reading and Dedham, and was a soldier in King Philip's war. He married Sarah and their children were: Susanna, born 1677; Sarah, born 1679, married Samuel Guild, of Dedham, January 8, 1700-1; Mary, born 1681, married Jonathan Faierbank, February 3, 1702; Abigail, born 1686; Joseph, born 1688; Tabitha, born 1690; Rebeka, born December 7. 1693; Thomas, born May 8, 1695 ; Ebenezer, born July 10, 1697, married Rebekah Dedham; Martha, born July 2, 1700.

(III) Joseph Hartshorn, son of Joseph (2) and Sarah Hartshorn, was born at Reading, 1688, died at Walpole, December 22, 1758. He married Rachel of Sherborn, March 17. 1709, and she died November 14, 1769. They lived at Walpole and Sherborn. Some of their children were: Joseph, born March 12, 1710; a daughter, born September 25, 1712; Sarah, born May 28. 1726.

(IV) Joseph Hartshorn. Jr., son of Joseph (3) and Rachel Hartshorn, was born March 12, 1710, at Walpole. He married Hannah Foster, December 29, 1721, and their children, all born at Walpole, were: Joseph, born October 15. 1732; Samuel, born April 22, 1734, died September 9, 1747; Joseph and Hannah, twins, born January 9, 1735-6; Jacob, born November 27, 1737; Mary, born January II, 1742-3; Ebenezer, born January 12, 1745-6; born March 31, 1747; Samuel, born April 30, 1749; Sibbel, born October 5, 1751.

(V) Deacon Ebenezer Hartshorn, son of Joseph, Jr., (4) and Hannah (Foster) Hartshorn, was born January 12, 1745-6, married Thankful , who died November 24, 1796. He married (second) Betty, daughter of Jonas and Sarah Greenwood, August 30, 1798, at Walpole. Ebenezer Hartshorn was a farmer and also a carpenter. He moved from Walpole to Boylston, Massachusetts, soon after 1790. He died May 27, 1813, at Boylston. His children were: Jacob, born August 17, 1769;

September 23, 1771; Daniel, February 7, 1774; Ebe- nezer. June 13. 1778; Nancy, January 23, 1781, at Stoughtenham; Warren, June 13, 1783: Grata, Oc- tober 27, 1788; Jonas, June, 1802: Calvin, March 6, 1804, died November 8, 1889: Susan, August 19, 1806, died September 25, 1881, married William Ken- dall, December 25, 1828; Sarah, February 16, 1811, married Simeon Partridge, of Boylston.

(VI) Calvin Hartshorn, son of Ebenezer (5) and Betty Hartshorn, was born March 6, 1804. He remained at Walpole, following his vocation of mill- wright. He married, November 19, 1832, Maria Ann Guild, born at Walpole, October 7, 1807. Their chil- dren were: I. Anna Maria, born September 12, 1833, married Luther Swan Leech, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, who died April 11, 1875, leaving his widow and a son. Joseph Swan Leech, born Novem- ber 14, 1860. 2. Calvin Guild, born February 23,

1840, at Walpole. 3. Edwin Curtis, born September 28. 1844, died April 21, 1849.

(VI) Deacon Jonas llartshorn,. son of Ebenezer (5) and Betty Hartshorn, was born at Sherborn, Massachusetts, June, 1802. His father died when he was a mere child and his mother apprenticed him to a man named Temple at Boyleston, with whom he served his seven years. He came to Worcester and for a time was guard and turnkey at the county jail. He bought a farmi on Mountain street, but in 1839 sold it and bought of Joseph and William W. Patch, two brothers, half of their farm of about two hundred acres. The other half was retained by William W. Patch. This new farm is the pres- ent Hartshorn estate. The new owner set out or- chards and shade trees, built the present barn and dwelling house, vastly improving the property.

Jonas Hartshorn married (first) Eunice Pateli, April 1, 1828. She died October 2, 1834, at the age of thirty years. He married (second) Laura Ann Patch, September 22, 1835. She died August 15, 1847, at the age of thirty years. He married (third) Abigail Whitney, August 10, 1848. She died March 23, 1862, at the age of forty-nine years. He married (fourth) Lydia W. Bray, March 15, 1864. Follow- ing are the children: John Clark, born January 20, 1829, died November 26, 1831; Nathan Greenwood, born June 23. 1831, died November 26, 1831 ; Calvin Lyon, born December 25, 1832; Caroline Elizabeth, born November 9, 1836, died December 25, 1839 ; John Warren, born September 9, 1839; Ann Eliza. born October 15, 1842, died August 22, 1845; Emma Jane, horn May 15, 1845, died August 30, 1845; Laura Ann, born August 3, 1847, died August 15, 18.47

(VI) Susan Hartshorn, daughter of Ebenezer (5) and Betty Hartshorn, was born August 19. 1806, died September 25, 1881. She married William San- ford Kendall, a miller of Templeton, Massachusetts, December 25, 1828. He was born in Boylston, Au- gust 9, 1803, died in South Royalston, February 23, . 1879. Their children were: I. William Sanford. born at Templeton, October 18, 1829, died in Tem- pleton, March 25, 1835. 2. Albert Warren, born September 8, 1832, died May 9, 1900, aged sixty-seven years. He was a gate tender at one of the cross- ings on the Boston & Maine Railroad in Gardner. He married (first), January 7, 1854, Charlotte Bar- rett Tyler, born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, Oc- tober 17, 1832, died in South Royalston, Massachu- setts. May 23, 1856. He married (second), May 8, 1862, at Three Oaks, Michigan, Nellie Gilligan, born in Joliet, Illinois, January 17, 1840, died in South Royalston, February 5, 1878. He married (thira), November 25, 1885, in South Royalston, Lucy Hill, born in Boston, August 7. 1860. His children were: Arthur Clarence, born in Momence, Illinois, June 27, 1863, a chairmaker in South Royalston, married in Gardner, October 25, 1888, Emma Elizabeth Wof fenden, born in South Royalston. November 29, 1859 : Mary Arabella, born July 24, 1865, died September 19, 1899, aged thirty-four years: Charles Edward, born South Royalston, October 15, 1869, died Sep- tember 11. 1873; Blanche Evelyn, born January 18, 1875, resides at Somerville, Massachusetts, tin- married: Ruth Lilla, born June 5, 1887; 3. Charles Augustus, born in Templeton, December 15, 1834, died May 23, 1002, aged sixty-seven years ; he was a bookkeeper in Somerville, married, October 18, 1870, Lydia Clifford, born in Edgecomb, Maine. 4 and 5. Sarah Sophia and Susan Maria. (twins), born October 29. 1837: Sarah S. died October 7. 1896, aged fifty-eight years: Susan M. married November 27. 1856. Jeremiah Atkins Rich, born April II, 1825, a chair maker in South Royalston.

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Susan M. Rich died December 12, 1903, aged sixty- six years. 6. William Sanford, born December 8, 1839, a miller in Athol Centre, Massachusetts, mar- ried, September 8, 1868, Adelaide Smith, born in Athol, July 20, 1836, died October 29, 1896; their children were: Leila Gertrude, born in South Royal- ston, May 14, 1869, died in Lynn, Massachusetts, August 29, 1873; William Webster, born October 26, 1870, a sash and blind maker in Athol, married, March 8, 1893, Blanche Elsie Dennis, born in Athol, November 10, 1876, having two children: Lelia Blanche, born 1893, and Gladys Lenora, born April 6, 1896; Elwood Lynde, born in Glen- ville, Connecticut, September 19, 1879; Goodman, born in East Port Chester, Connecticut, September 9, 1880, died September 26, 1881. 7. Edward, born in South Royalston, November 27, 1843, died Janu- ary 5, 1845. 8. Edward Hartshorn, born March 30, 1847, died June 13, 1850.

(VI) Sarah Hartshorn, daughter of Ebenezer (5) and Betty Hartshorn, was born February 16. ISII, died August, 1890. She married, November 27. 1837, Simeon Partridge, born July 6, 1799, died 1866. He was a farmer at Boylston. Their children were: I. Mary Keyes, born July 9, 1839, married, June, 1866, Henry Harlow, born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where he resides on a farmi; they had: Hiram Edward, born January 12, 1869, is a farmer on the home farm in Shrewsbury, being of the fourth generation on that farm; Arthur John, born January 16, 1871, married Annie Kershaw, born England, June 3, 1904; he is a farmer : Edith Maria, born March 27, 1873, is a teacher in the pub- lic schools of Worcester; Ruth Alice, born October 2, 1875, resides on the home farm; Helen Elmira, born January 29, 1879, married Charles Edward Allen, son of Romeo Allen, of Shrewsbury, Decem- ber 25. 1902, and resides in Shrewsbury; Robert Henry, born December 11, 1882, owns a milk route in the city of Worcester: he boards in his father's family in Shrewsbury. 2. Caroline Elizabeth, born November 5, 1841, married, April 6, 1869, John Wil- liam Warren, born in Princeton and is on the Wor- cester police force (1898). They had Herbert An- son, born March 14, 1870, a civil engineer in New York city, married, March 6, 1895, Mande Sophia Bosworth, of Worcester, and they had three children, among whom were: Edwin Taylor, born April 27, 1896, and Barbara Bosworth, born March 24, 1898; Thaddeus Chenery, born September 18, 1871, an electrician in Worcester, married, September 19, 1895. Adaline E. Stearns; Susie Greenwood, born August 29, 1876, clerk at the Worcester Insane Asy- lum; John Partridge, born February 24, 1878, assist- ant superintendent at the salesrooms of the White Automobile Company in New York city; Sara Maria, born November 3, 18So, resides in New Rochelle, New York; Philip Hamilton, born January 17, 1882, graduated June. 1905, at the Lowell Textile School, and is now in New Rochelle. New York. 3. Ruth Ellen, born January 15, 1844, resides in' Worcester. 4. Susan Abigail, born April 14, 1847, for twenty- five years a teacher in the public schools of Wor- cester ; resides in Worcester.

(VII) John Warren Hartshorn, son of Jonas (6) and Laura Hartshorn, was born September 19, 1839, married Emma J. Lyon, December 16, 1869. She was born December 10. 1846, at New London, Con- necticut, died October 29, 1895. He is an insurance agent at New London, Connecticut. Their children were Albert Lyon, born January 17, 1871 ; Laura Ann born April 16, 1873: Grace Evelyn, born June 8, 1883.

(1) Thomas Greenwood was the emigrant an- cestor of Betty Greenwood, who married into the

Hartshorn family. He came to Boston in 1665. He was born in England in 1643 and learned the trade of weaver there. He settled in Cambridge, now Newton, and was first town clerk there. In 1667 he was constable and for four years selectman. He married (first) Hannah Ward, July 16, 1690, and (second) Abigail Spring, and had children by both. llis children were: Thomas, born January 22, 1671; Thomas (Rev.), born July 15, 1673, graduate at Harvard College, 1690; John; James, born Decem- ber 19, 1687; William, born October 14, 1689. Thomas died September 11, 1693.

(II) William Greenwood, son of Thomas (1) and Abigail Greenwood, was born October 1.4, 1689. He was deacon of the church. He removed from Newton to Sherborn. It is related in the history of Sherborn that Greenwood was the first man in the town to receive potatoes, which were introduced in New England in 1720 by the Scotch-Irish. Their nse spread slowly. He tried his first mess in 17.30 and after testing them declared that "after freezing and thawing a few times they would be good." He was a farmer and was always active in church and town affairs. For twenty-four years he was the town clerk and for six years selectman. In 17.47 he was representative to the general court at Boston. He married Abigail Woodward, and their children were: Abigail, born June 2, 1716; Dorcas, born July 17, 1717; William, born November 4, 1721; Caleb, born September 9, 1724, died February 4, 1800; Jonas, born April 25, 1727, died May 28, 1802; Sam- uel, born March 21, 1729: John, born December 16, 1730; Daniel, born July 22, 1732; Joseph, born June 10, 1734; Abigail, born August 10, 1737.

(III) Jonas Greenwood, son of William (2) and Abigail Greenwood, was born April 25, 1727, died May 28, 1802. He married Sarah , and their children were: I. Jonathan, born November 12, 1755, married Sybil -, and had Alvin, born April 3. 1781, and Sybil. born January 2, 1785, at Sherborn. 2. Mary, born March 16, 1758. 3. Belle, born April 4, 1760, married Mary Babcock, July 10, 1783. 4. Betty, born January 23, 1765. 5. Betty, born August 1. 1767, married Ebenezer Hartshorn at Walpole, August 30, 1798. See Ebenezer (V) Hartshorn for genealogy. She died February, 1815. 6. Reuben, born January 9, 1770, married - Cate, and had five children. 7. Susannah, born July 4, 1772. 8. Jonas, born July 19, 1775, married Polly Stratton, and had Aaron. born October 30, 1799, and Sally Stratton, born October 13, 1811. 9. Ach- sah, horn December 16, 1778.

(IV) Betty Greenwood, daughter of Jonas (3) and Saralı Greenwood, married Ebenezer Hartshorn. See Hartshorn (V).

(VII) Calvin Lyon Hartshorn, son of Jonas (6) and Eunice Hartshorn, was born in Worcester, Christmas Day, 1832. He was educated in the Wor- cester public schools, at Worcester Academy and Essex Seminary (now Essex Academy) at Essex, Connecticut, His early years when not in school were spent on his father's farm. When he began for himself he bought a milk route, which is re- markable for its long continued prosperity. It was established in 1838 by his father and has been con- ducted withont interruption to the present time. It is the oldest in the city. Later he returned home and conducted his father's farm. He began the rais- ing of early vegetables with a few small hot beds, and as he found it profitable he extended the busi- ness until he has on the farm at present over four hundred hotbed sash and two modern green-houses, each one hundred and seventy-five feet in length. About thirty hands are employed on the place in summer and fifteen in winter. Mr. Hartshorn has

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remodeled the farm-house and built other buildings. He has laid out part of the farm, which is at the corner of May and June streets in a rapidly grow- ing and very attractive suburban section of Wor- cester, and lias sold some of the property for build- ing lots. Such important city streets as Courtland, Walworth, Lovell, June, May and Chandler cross the farm. He has built a brick machine shop on Chandler street, first occupied by the Wright Ma- chine Company and now owned by Bay State Stamp- ing Company. A new house on the farin is occupied by his son, Arthur E. Hartshorn, who for several years has taken up the active management of the business. The farm is generally known as the Wal- nut Hill Farm. The fruits and vegetables raised here are prize winners at all the horticultural and agricultural exhibitions in this vicinity.

Mr. Hartshorn has been prominent all his life in city affairs. He and his wife were charter members of Worcester Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, which has developed into an exceedingly strong and suc- cessful organization. For five years he was the master of the Grange. His prominence among the men of his own business is shown best perhaps by his service in the Agricultural and Horticultural societies and in the public offices he has held. in which special knowledge and training in agriculture are requisite. He has been for many years trustee and vice president of the Worcester Agricultural Society. He is also a trustee and vice-president of the Worcester County Horticultural Society. For twelve years he was a member of the State Board of Agriculture, for six years a member of the Dairy Bureau of Massachusetts, for six years a member of the executive committee of the State Board of Agriculture, for four years a director of the state experimental station at the Massachusetts Agricul- tural College at Amherst, Massachusetts. In his own business his word is taken as authority. Mr. Hartshorn is a member of the Dewey Street Baptist Church.

He has had a very creditable career in the city government. Men of his sterling honesty and com- mon sense are the kind needed in the public service perhaps more today than formerly because of the tendency of active and successful business men to avoid public life. Mr. Hartshorn was in the com- mon council from 1870 to 1874. Through his efforts mainly the fire department was extended to give better protection to the residence section on the West Side. He assisted the project of constructing the boulevard, which at that time was looked upon by some of the people as a wild, extravagant and useless expense. Time has shown the wisdom of the construction of this great thoroughfare. As a public officer he had the gift of foresight as well as regard for the present economies. He made an admirable servant on the board of overseers of the poor, on which he served for twelve years. He was appointed a park commissioner and the duties were congenial, but after one year he was obliged to re- sign on account of the pressure of other business. He served Worcester as representative in the general court, as his ancestors had done before him. He represented the twenty-fourth district in 1879 and 18So. He was nominated for mayor, but refused to run against the late Mayor E. B. Stoddard. Not- withstanding his announced withdrawal he received a very handsome complimentary vote in the annual election of 1881, receiving 1571 votes.

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 109

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 824

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824